Associate / Senior Associate Consultant - Natural Capital
CrossBoundary Advisory
Nairobi, Kenya · East Africa
Role type
Climate & Impact Investing
Experience
Associate
Deadline
Not stated
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Summary
Help structure and launch a blended-finance platform for regenerative agriculture and landscape resilience in Sub-Saharan Africa. These CrossBoundary Advisory consultancies combine investment-vehicle design, financial modelling, climate-fund proposals, fundraising preparation and early investment screening, with African office options including Nairobi, Accra, Dar es Salaam, Lusaka and Lagos.
About the role
CrossBoundary is recruiting two Associate or Senior Associate consultants for its Natural Capital practice. The platform combines a commercial investment vehicle with technical assistance and catalytic capital windows, supported by Green Climate Fund project-preparation funding. The work spans government engagement, investor materials, capital-stack analysis and coordination of specialist proposal inputs. Individual consultancies are approximately full-time for five to seven months, with possible extension; engagement depends on the GCF grant and CrossBoundary contracting requirements.
Key responsibilities
Support the programme Theory of Change and Green Climate Fund funding proposal, coordinating specialist annexes and safeguards inputs.
Build financial-analysis templates and support fund modelling, scenario analysis and sizing of concessional capital.
Aggregate investment pipelines and flows of funds across participating countries and financing instruments.
Prepare government briefings and facilitate engagement with ministries, national authorities and landscape-level stakeholders.
Analyse capital-stack options, investment-vehicle structures, domiciles and governance arrangements.
Support investor market sounding, prepare pitch books, placement memoranda and term sheets, and manage the investor pipeline and data room.
Draft investment policies, processes and committee templates and screen early opportunities against investee criteria.
Key requirements
Bachelor’s degree required; a master’s degree or relevant advanced degree or professional qualification is preferred.
Two to seven years of relevant advisory, operating or investment experience, including strategy/development consulting, enterprise operations, development finance, private capital or blended finance.
Strong quantitative and financial-modelling skills and the ability to produce concise, investor-grade written materials.
Experience engaging government counterparts and coordinating multi-partner workstreams; Sub-Saharan African experience is desirable.
Fluent English and willingness to travel regularly; working French is preferred.
Experience with climate funds, agricultural value chains, nature-based solutions, carbon markets or fund structuring is highly valued.
Two individual consultancy positions, approximately five to seven months. London is also an advertised location. Indicative rate: USD 400–600 per day, subject to confirmation. Engagement depends on the GCF grant and contracting. No application deadline stated.
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